“LEADS 2020 : Reimagine the World” is a 4-day global leadership initiative from FICCI to evolve a shared vision for global economic prosperity. The detailed program is available at www.ficcileads.in. Following are the regional sessions scheduled for Day 3, starting at 1045 am (IST): Gulf & West Asia Session: Reimagining Business Beyond Oil – Auditorium 1 South Asia Session:…
To fight the slowdown following COVID-19, the Finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a slew of measures through a stimulus of Rs 73,000 crore to boost demand and consumer spending in the economy before the end of the current financial year. The stimulus announced by the FM included LTC Cash Voucher Scheme and Special…
Emerging as a powerful tool to provide record of rights to rural households across the country, the Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA) yojana launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to bring in historical changes across the villages of the country. Under this scheme, property cards…
With an aim to provide a safe and clean tap water connection to every rural households across the country by 2024, the Ministry of Jal Shakti has taken up tap water connection work on a war footing, while placing the necessary emphasis on quality surveillance and monitoring of the supplied water. The Govt of Haryana,…
Goa has become the first state in the country with ‘Har Ghar Jal State’ tag after it successfully completed its mission of providing tap water connection to every rural household. It has established water connection in over two lakh 30 thousand rural households, out of which 65 thousand rural households have been provided water tap…
The Ministry of Railways has informed to have registered an 18% increase in freight in the month of October vis-à-vis the same period last year. It has also earned revenue from freight about Rs 250 crore higher than the last year during the same period. It has already loaded over 26 million tonnes of freight…
The government has allowed the taxpayers to file their GST annual return for FY-2018-19 till October 31 and it has urged the taxpayers to avail the benefit of the extended deadline and file their return promptly. The finance ministry has made the provision to report only the values of transactions pertaining to the concerned financial…
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has completed the construction of 3951 km length of road during the first half of the current financial year. It has been successful in achieving construction pace of 21.60 km per day, despite facing a lot of challenges due to COVID-19 spread. The Ministry has set an…
Despite the coronavirus outbreak, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has been successful in awarding 60% more length of projects in comparison to the last year from April to September 2020. It has successfully awarded the highest length of projects in the last three years. Altogether it has awarded 40 projects of the combined…
Atal Tunnel, the longest Highway tunnel in the world located in Himalaya’s Pir Panjal range, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It connects Manali in Himachal Pradesh to Lahaul-Spiti valley. The 9.02 km long Atal Tunnel will keep both these locations connected throughout the year. Earlier due to heavy snowfall, the valley used to…
